"Like
Miles Davis, Clark Terry and Lester Bowie, Baikida Carroll
is a cutting edge St. Louis trumpet player. Carroll is a brilliant,
demanding and innovative composer and soloist, with a big,
commanding sound, tone and attack. Always in demand, Carroll
is revered by his peers and has my total admiration and respect"
_ Quincy Troupe Author of Miles and Me, co-author of Miles:
The Autobiography (2002)

"Colorful, loose and imaginative are
meek understatements when describing the sumptuous music on
Marionettes on a High Wire."
-John Murph, Down Beat [ full
review ]

"There's
a beautiful kind of daring in the music -- a rough tenderness
in Carroll's trumpet tone, a palpable spiritual commitment
from all the players involved. Carroll and his group unleash
a highly adventurous sound...a freshness and multi-dimensionality
that is truly rare."
-David Adler, All Music Guide [ full
review ]

"Baikida
Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility
and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with."
-Jon Pareles, The New York Times

"Baikida is a Bad Motha...! A true disciple of the maintenance
and extension of the trumpet tradition."-Lester
Bowie, Trumpeter

"[Marionettes
On a High Wire] Phenomenal in both conception & execution...one
of the trumpet's most brilliant improvising players ... one
of jazz's most rewarding composers ... leads a superb quintet
whose music is exciting, subtle, melodious & adventurous."
-Lucky Oceans, "The Planet," Australian Broadcasting Corporation
[ full
review ]

"Elegantly
rendered shifts in meter and memorable melodies, awash with
blistering yet finely articulated soloing by the leader...Carroll's
latest release equates to one beautifully fabricated production,
that imparts a lasting impression. Now, we can only hope that
Baikida Carroll sustains fewer gaps between recordings! Recommended!!"
-Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz [
full review
]

"I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent
beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll
is polarized; poised; at a matchless point between lyricism
and fire." -Julius Hemphill, Composer/Musician [
full review
]

"Carroll is equally comfortable "inside" as "outside"...is
no stylistic chameleon, and always maintains a strong identity
of his own... Finely crafted and brimming over with verve
and unselfconscious originality, this new release is a delight
from start to finish, and a welcome spotlighting of a too-often
overlooked talent."
-Steve Holtje, CD Now [ full
review ]

"Marionettes on a High Wire is in that rare class for me where
words like superb, and exquisite get used....tough, swinging,
angry, loving, thoughtful and expressive cutting-edge jazz.
Don't miss this one."-SD
Feeney, Face Magazine